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International relations

Etablissement : JUNIA Grande école d’ingénieurs

Langue : Anglais

Période : S2

Continuation of Comparative Government (first semester).

  • Studying the State in an International context.
  • Understanding the complexity of the Globalisation.

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS:

  • Definition
  • History
  • Differences with Political Science
  • Main issues
  • Theories related to IR
  • World Orders
  • International System and International Society

THE COLD WAR:

  • History
  • Origins and analysis
  • Cold War and Third World
  • End of Cold War
  • New World Order and Post Cold War Period

IR THEORIES:

  • Realism (Origins; Assumptions; Categories; Analysis; Strength and Weakness; Critiques)
  • Neo-Realism (Assumptions, Explanation)
  • Liberalism (Same study as Realism)
  • Comparison of Realism and Liberalism
  • Neo-Liberalism and comparison to Neo-Realism

CONSTRUCTIVISM:

  • Assumptions
  • Explanation
  • Examples
  • Bridge with Post-modernism

CONFLICTS :

  • Types of Conflict
  • Conflict Theory
  • General Patterns
  • Causes
  • Examples
  • Typology of War

ETHICS IN IR:

  • Ethics and Morality
  • Theories (Cosmopolitanism and Communitarianism)
  • Humanitarian Intervention